Sally Provence papers 1951-1991

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Sally Provence papers 1951-1991

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The papers include correspondence and writings and research files which document the professional career of Sally Provence. Data from Provence's studies on child development comprise the bulk of the papers, which also include files from her involvement in the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs.

33.75 linear feet

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351542

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Provence, Sally, 1916-

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Sally Provence was born in East Texas in 1916. She completed her undergraduate work at Mary Hardin College and received her M.D. from Baylor Medical College. As a practicing pediatrician, Provence became interested in child development and, in 1949, she came to work in the Yale Child Study Center. In 1951 Provence founded the center's Child Development Unit, which she directed until her retirement in 1986. Her work included standards for children in institutions, studies of children in day care,...

National Center for Clinical Infant Programs (U.S.)

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Yale University. Child Study Center

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The Yale longitudinal study was planned as an ambitious exploratory study of personality (ego) development in the first years of life. The research team was composed of pediatricians, child psychologists, nursery-school teachers, psychiatric social workers and psychoanalysts, specialists in early childhood development. The initial investigators, including Ernst Kris, Sally Provence, then-director Milton Senn, Charlotte del Solar and Katherine Wolf, began to recruit families and pilo...